20 years later

[arpad]

So, if someone would have shown me in 1987 that:

• At eleven in the night I am sitting in rotating chair in front of my own computer.
  
• Internet links me with all outside world
  
• Panorama of some night town in Israel under my window
  
• Writing something in English, watching some TV series in English
  
• Knowing some Hebrew too
  
• Table full of strange electronic gadgets, phone, cell-phone...
  
• Seal of my own start-up company on the top of scanner on the right
  
• Databases of two other projects in the computer
  
• My library mostly in the computer
  
• Esher's biography and full catalog on nearby bookshelf
  
• Air conditioner on the wall above me
  
• Little souvenir sword from Toledo - gift of a friend on the table near computer mouse.
  
• Electric kettle,teabags, tasty little things in the fridge
  
• Yeah, and I do not share the apartment with parents or roommates
  
• Yeah, and I have microwave oven (would have had to explain me what it is...)
  
• Yeah, and I have driving license
  
• Yeah...
  

The twenty years younger me would have said "cool" (or, rather, something similar in Russian - he didn't know what "cool" means yet).

So why I am so not cool if so many nice things are around?

*chuckles*

Life is a bitch.

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[knirirr.livejournal.com]

I went there for a visit in 1988 to practice speaking Russian.
Unfortunately, I've not used Russian since and have forgotten almost all of what I knew.

[arpad.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you can tolerate my journal as a result, so the time was not totally wasted :)